Title: Winnifred Stone Gill Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1924-1941

Creator:

• Gill, Winnifred Stone, 1878-1941

Call Number: Wis Mss US

Quantity: 3.1 c.f. (6 archives boxes, 2 flat boxes, and 1 card file box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Winnifred Stone Gill, a Madison, Wisconsin genealogist. Included are miscellaneous genealogies, research notes, and queries that Mrs. Gill used in her genealogical column in the Wisconsin State Journal, 1935-1940.

Language: English

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Winnifred P. Stone, the daughter of John P. and Amy Phillips Stone, was born in Reedsburg, Wisconsin on July 21, 1878. She attended the public schools of Reedsburg and graduated from Reedsburg High School in 1896 and from Whitewater State Teachers College in 1899. In 1901, she married Norman T. Gill, later president of the Bank of Madison. When Mrs. Gill died on April 7, 1941, she was survived by her husband and two sons, John K. Gill and Charles H. Gill.

In 1905, Mrs. Gill joined the Daughters of the American Revolution and served as an active member and officer in both the Reedsburg and Madison chapters. She was the founder and first president of the Wisconsin Genealogical Society in 1939 and served as associate editor of Wisconsin Families Magazine. Mrs. Gill conducted a genealogical column in the Sunday edition of the Wisconsin State Journal from 1935 to 1940.

The Winnifred Stone Gill collection relates entirely to Mrs. Gill's genealogical work, including manuscript genealogies of several New England families in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, arranged by surname; miscellaneous unsorted genealogical notes and queries; and five volumes, as listed in the contents list below. The collection contains a card file relating to the genealogy of the Phillips family.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Winnifred Stone Gill, Madison, Wisconsin, 1941; the Gill Estate, 1942; and Charles S. Gill, Madison, Wisconsin, 1951 and 1962. Additional items were presented by Norman T. Gill to the Historical Society Library, May 20, 1942 and transferred to the Archives in 1974.

Processing Information

Processed by Jack T. Ericson, April 29, 1966.

Wis Mss US Box   1-2	Family genealogies, A-W (arranged by surnames) Scope and Content Note: These surnames are represented: Angel Babson Bishop Bull Chase Cole Conant Coombs Cornwall Cutter-Joslin de Clare Deming Dodge Doolittle Drake Ensign Farr Farwell Fenn Gerry Gill Goodknight Gould-Wadsworth Graves Griesel Hale Hall Hamilton (Arthur Putnam) Harris Hatch Hawes Haynes Hiday Hobson Hoyt Hulburt Humphrey Hutchinson Jenckes Jewett Jones Kilham King Knapp Knight Lamb-Durham Lathrop Lewis Lord McFarland Malavery Marden Marden-Phillips Mawry Merriman Mix Moss Mullar Noyes Olney Peck Perkins Phillips (See also Stone-Phillips and Boxes 5 and 6) Pickard Place Pope-Hammond Putnam Putney Rice Rockwell Sampson Sayles Sheldon Shippe Stevens-Rice Stone-Phillips Tomkins Treadwell Walling Watson Whitcomb White Whitney Wickenden
Box   3-4	Miscellaneous genealogical notes and queries
Box   4	Genealogical information regarding National Society of Magna Carta Dames
Box   4 Volume   1-2	Clipping scrapbook of notes and queries (indexed)
Box   4 Volume   3	“Some Ancestral Lines of the Hollenbeck Sisters” by Winnifred Stone Gill
Box   4 Volume   4	Clipping scrapbook of vital statistics and history for New York state
Box   9	Card file genealogy of the Phillips family
Box   7 Volume   5	Genealogy of the Stone family
	Clipping scrapbooks of notes and queries, filed alphabetically by family name
Box   7 Volume   6-7	A-K
Box   8 Volume   8-9	L-Z
Box   6 Volume   14	Similar scrapbook containing another alphabetical series, A-Z